How do I keep the Thunderbird profile in sync between multiple computers?

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Published on 2011-11-24T08:25:37Z Indexed on 2011/11/24 18:20 UTC
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I'd like to find a definitive solution to automatically keep my Thunderbird profile in sync between my laptop and my desktop computer.

I'm using IMAP, so keeping the e-mail itself in sync is not an issue
I can use Ubuntu One for the contacts, so that should not be an issue, either.

However, there are a bunch of other files and folders in the Thunderbird profile, and I'm not sure which ones I should keep in sync and which ones I shouldn't bother about.

Ideally, I'd like to use Ubuntu One to mark the required ones for syncing, but I would appreciate any help in deciding which ones exactly need to be synced.

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